Tsering Wangmo Dhompa
Tsering Wangmo Dhompa (born March 6, 1969 in northern India) is a Tibetan poet whose family comes from the eastern Tibetan Nangchen ( Kham ). She grew up in Dharamsala, India, and in Kathmandu, Nepal, and now lives in San Francisco, USA.
Her best-known works have been published in two volumes of poetry, Rules of the House and In the Absent Everyday . In 2003 she was nominated for the Asian American Literary Award . Her work appears deceptively simple, the poems and character sketches draw lyrically from a rich present and a past steeped in memories. With Letter For Love she delivered her first prose poem.
The poet, who received a master's degree in English literature from Lady Shri Ram College in New Delhi, is involved in the American Himalayan Foundation , San Francisco, for Tibetan issues.
Notes and sources
- ^ Andrew Schelling, The Wisdom Anthology of North American Buddhist Poetry , Wisdom Publications 2005, p. 41. ISBN 0-86171-392-3
- ↑ Archived copy ( Memento of the original from October 27, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. The caravan
Works
- Rules of the House , Apogee Press, Berkeley CA 2002. ISBN 0-9669937-9-9
- In The Absent Everyday , Apogee Press, Berkeley CA 2005. ISBN 0-9744687-7-0
- In Writing the Names , A.bacus, Potes & Poets Press 2001
- Recurring Gestures , Tangram Press, Berkeley 2000
- Letter For Love , in: The Caravan. A journal of politics and culture , Vol. 2, Issue 08 (August 2010)
Web links
- Nostalgia in Contemporary Tibetan Poetics
- Excerpts from Rules of the House (pdf; 411 kB)
- Excerpts from In the Absent Everyday (pdf; 408 kB)
- Tsering Wangmo Dhompa
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Tsering Wangmo Dhompa |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Tibetan poet |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 6, 1969 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | North India |